#staytrippy08

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midnight nebulaBOT
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rough epoch
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c'est juste l'ordre de la langue! vous devez mettre le verbe dans le milieu. donc, c'est pour les verbes

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svp corriger moi si je ne suis pas correct!

dense hare
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la seule fois où « ne pas » seront ensemble, c'est quand le verbe est à l'infinitif

par exemple...

  • Merci de ne pas voler les chaises. ("Please do not steal the chairs.")
toxic flower
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Mmhm, la personne au dessus de moi est correcte. It's just the order of it, where « ne … pas » wraps around the verb.

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Do note that it wraps around the conjugated verb which is essential when you're doing the compound verbs. For example, in the passé composé verb, the conjugated verb is the auxiliary and so it wraps around just that.
Ex: J'ai écrit ce message -> Je n'ai pas écrit ce message
I've written this message -> I've not written this message

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I've put that in the present perfect (I've written) over the simple past (I wrote) because the structure is more similar

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Oh, and « ne … pas » doesn't really mean 'do not', it's closer to just… 'not'. It might make more sense at the beginning but it'd be a bad habit and it can mislead you

tardy coral
rough epoch
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the problem with duo is that it doesn't really explain grammar, it just tells you if you're wrong

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if you want a free language app to learn French, I'd recommend busuu instead

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and bare in mind, it doesn't have to have "pas" at the end.
eg: "je ne sais* quoi'

plush siren
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It usually does need "pas" though, you can't just remove the pas willy nilly